STEM trip to Amsterdam

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A plethora of interactive museums

The vibrant city of Amsterdam offers a plethora of interactive museums and sites exploring chemistry, the human body, energy, technology, space exploration, engineering, electricity and light.

Our trip is targeted at 11-14 year olds but can be adapted to suit all ages.

You can extend your trip with a visit to the city of Eindhoven, in south east Netherlands. Nicknamed the City of Light, Eindhoven is now known as the city of technology, design and knowledge thanks to the light art festival GLOW Eindhoven and Dutch Design Week.

The light art festival GLOW takes place for a week every November and hosts an array of stunning light artworks across the city created by national and international light artists.

In addition, the Brainport region in Eindhoven attracts the highest level of investment in the Netherlands and is one of Europe’s leading innovative top technology regions.

Sample itinerary

Day 1

Leave school for travel to Amsterdam. Transfer to accommodation and evening at leisure to start exploring the local area.

Day 2

Morning visit and workshop at NEMO Science Museum. Step straight onto a canal boat from the museum’s doors to explore Amsterdam’s waterways. In the afternoon, experience the sensation of flying in the 5D flying experience at This is Holland. Then visit Body Worlds Amsterdam, which displays real, plastinated human bodies used for scientific research and medical education; a fascinating exhibition created by Dr. Gunther von Hagens.

Day 3

Transfer to Noordwijk to enjoy a tour at ESA ESTEC, the technical heart of the European Space Agency, where all European space missions begin. Visit the adjoining space travel museum and travel on to Leiden to experience the Corpus, ‘a journey through the human body’. Return to Amsterdam and enjoy a workshop at the Science Centre at Technical University Delft in which students are challenged to build their own bridge in an inspiring environment.

Day 4

Depart or transfer onto Eindhoven, the City of Light, a 1.5 hour’s drive from Amsterdam.

Eindhoven Extension

Extend your trip

Day 4

Transfer to Eindhoven where electronics company Philips was founded. In the afternoon enjoy a tour of the city and its industrial and redevelopment sites, or its cutting-edge region Brainport. In the evening students enjoy the marvellous light art festival GLOW, among the top best-visited light festivals in the world.

Day 5

Unwind at Efteling theme park en route home.

Visits

Browse a selection of our favourite activities and visits.

NEMO Science Museum
This is Holland
ESA ESTEC
The Philips Museum
The Leiden
ARCAM Architecture Centre
Museum Amstelkring
Micropia
Walibi theme park (closed during winter)
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
Museon
Teylers Art

Take part in the workshop Hands-on chemistry, where students work on their own experiments and see the open-air roof exhibition Energetica, which shows energy captured from wind, water and sun.

Students discover how the Netherlands was created via the latest technology to give the sensation of flying!

The heart of the European Space Agency. The adjoining space travel museum boasts a life-size model of the moon landing.

Offers a variety of exhibitions, including the game Mission Eureka.

Experience the Corpus, ‘a journey through the human body’; students enter the body at the knee and exit through the brain. Incredibly interactive museum showing how the human body works and the importance of diet and exercise.

Housing the current exhibitions of Architectural design within Amsterdam.

A traditional 17th Century Canal House and one of the city’s oldest museums, offering visitors the chance to experience the Dutch Golden Age.

Museum based on the idea of distributing information about microbes.

One of the most exciting theme park of the Netherlands.

A museum of the history of science and medicine in Leiden, displaying a collection of historical scientific instruments from medicine, physics and astronomy.

A museum for science and culture in The Hague.

A natural history and science museum in Haarlem.

Where to stay

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Our students stay In a choice of high-quality youth hostels, chosen for their student-friendly facilities and central location.

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FAQs

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You should book your tour between 8-18 months in advance. This will give us time to secure the best possible accommodation and excursion programme for your tour and you will have ample time for fundraising should you need to do so.

We can send you mini-brochures to hand out at school and a PowerPoint presentation for assemblies and parent’s meetings you may wish to hold. We also have an interactive promotional poster you can put up on walls and noticeboards. This will make it easier for you to get your students excited about your plans.

Yes, there are many advantages to this. One is that greater numbers sign up which means a lower tour price per student. Another is that a diverse (two-subject) itinerary can broaden the horizons of both ‘groups’ though, of course, we can create separate agendas for each if preferred.